# I just want to thank all my Doper friends **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 21, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424 "2023-03-21T03:33:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/41 "2023-03-22T00:31:41Z")
Yes, I got it. šŸ˜ ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/42 "2023-03-22T01:03:05Z")
I am relieved. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/43 "2023-03-22T01:43:28Z")
Oh no, youā€™re not. Your shift isnā€™t over yet. Return to your post, soldier! ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/44 "2023-03-22T02:04:03Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I find your (collective) lack of visual acuity disturbing. Well, they first put glasses on me when I was six, and it probably should have been six months. Looks kind of like a hummingbird to me . . . Thank you all for taking me in after snopes kicked us all out. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/45 "2023-03-22T02:11:35Z")
I havenā€™t read the thread. I just wanted to say that when I read the title, I thought it saidā€¦ I just want to **shank** all my Doper friends. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/46 "2023-03-22T03:05:32Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I just want to **shank** all my Doper friends. If we keep giving N\_P crap about their avatar, they may _need_ to make that change. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/47 "2023-03-22T14:10:52Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > At least he had the integrity to keep his avatar, not replace it with an indistinguishable kitty pic like about a dozen people did the last time we had an avatar pile-on. I _beg_ your pardon! Good day, sir! (Really, I wish everyone a good day, regardless of their faulty opinions about avatars.) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/48 "2023-03-22T14:21:41Z")
Considering most of the friends Iā€™ve had in my life have been &^##$s, I like to think of you folks as more than just ā€œfriends.ā€ That being said, loan me $20 'til Monday? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/49 "2023-03-23T00:19:05Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I just want to **shank** all my Doper friends. Just one or two. I keep a little list. Theyā€™ll none of them be missed. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/50 "2023-03-23T00:22:29Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > @Northern_Piper , you have encouraged me to get where I am. My forever thanks to you; Iā€™d never be where I am without you. I missed this post my first quick skim of the thread the other day. Iā€™m touched, and Iā€™m very glad to have helped. šŸ„² ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/51 "2023-03-23T00:40:26Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > > I just want to **shank** all my Doper friends. > > Just one or two. > > I keep a little list. > > Theyā€™ll none of them be missed. Murder is trivial. Itā€™s getting away with it thatā€™s harder. Still a totally worthwhile endeavor. PM me if you need help w anything. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/52 "2023-03-23T00:45:04Z")
As @Morgyn says in this thread, Dopers are the greatest people in the world. > [@I Can't Lose My Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-lose-my-dad/981464): > > Iā€™ve been a daddyā€™s girl my whole life. I look like him, act like him and he was the first man I ever loved. He introduced me to Sci-fi and fantasy. He taught me how to drive and how to take care of my car. He has let me cry on his shoulder when Iā€™ve had heartaches, celebrated with me when Iā€™ve had joy and been there to answer any question I might have with candor and compassion. If something happens to him, Iā€™m going to be lost. Around Thanksgiving, my sister called me to say that he wā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/53 "2023-03-23T00:53:13Z")
As Bilbo said, ā€œI donā€™t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.ā€ Seriously, there are many of I think very greatly of, true friends and not just people I kind of know because of the Internet. * * * * * * I want to list them, but Iā€™ll forget someone and feel like an absolute shit. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/54 "2023-03-23T04:54:56Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Thank you all for taking me in after snopes kicked us all out. Iā€™ll echo this, and add that I am glad to see some familiar faces (avatars) from snopes. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/55 "2023-03-23T09:31:07Z")
To me it is interesting to see such a variety of peopleā€“some older than me, some wiser, some better educated, some more affluent, some with more interesting careers, some with more responsibilityā€“all spending lots of time on online forums, and watching/talking about TV (not to mention comic books). It is nice to know that, beneath the surface, everybody is as big a loser as me. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/56 "2023-03-23T09:44:03Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Bagpipes! Itā€™s bagpipes, for a Piper! Why is that so hard?!? Look, we love you, OK? Youā€™re one of the best posters on the board. Truly. But what youā€™ve got there is the worldā€™s ugliest hummingbird. (Somebody had to say it.) šŸ¦ ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/57 "2023-03-23T10:04:02Z")
I think it looks more like something being stabbed to death with spears. ---
**Author:** ![Scutcheon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scutcheon/32/11781_2.png) [@Scutcheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scutcheon)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/58 "2023-03-23T10:51:42Z")
Well said, Sir. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/59 "2023-03-23T10:52:59Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > At least he had the integrity to keep his avatar, not replace it with an indistinguishable kitty pic like about a dozen people did the last time we had an avatar pile-on. Hey, hey, HEY! My kitty is _entirely_ distinguishable! ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424/60 "2023-03-23T12:17:26Z")
Could you please elaborate on the Snopes thing? I missed something there. Did they have a discussion board one time that got shut down? Or were you all misbehaving? šŸ™‚ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-thank-all-my-doper-friends/981424.md?page=4)